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These Three Stone Lampstandards Were Built in 1939

A plaque at Shag Rock Reserve, standing in Clifton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

THESE THREE STONE LAMPSTANDARDS WERE BUILT IN 1939 BY THE SUMNER BOROUGH COUNCIL... RENEWED 1980... LIT FIRST TIME DECEMBER 2004
The suburb
Clifton
The year
2009, the register’s commission
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Shag Rock Reserve

The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground’s other names

In the archive

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

274 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 191 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Street Cleaning 300 Main Rd · 4 October 2026
General Request 258–296 Main Rd · 2 October 2026
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge 258–296 Main Rd · 1 October 2026
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge 258–296 Main Rd · 1 October 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 258–296 Main Rd · 28 September 2026
Street Light Outage 258–296 Main Rd · 26 June 2026
Water General 258–296 Main Rd · 21 June 2026
Water Leak 258–296 Main Rd, Canterbury, Heathcote Ward 8081 · 1 June 2026
Water Leak 288 Main Rd · 31 May 2026
Water Leak 258–296 Main Rd · 29 May 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Shag Rock Reserve in Clifton, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Shag Rock Reserve?

2 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2009. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/59804-shag-rock-reserve.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.